These programs will simulate the electrical behavior of neurons in either
current clamp or voltage clamp modes. The documentation is an MS-Word document,
with illustrations. To get these, be sure to set your WEB browser to
receive to disk, rather than the screen. The files can also be obtained
directly via anonymous FTP. Send me email for specific instructions.To
install the programs on your PC, please obtain both install files (Install.bat
amp; Install.txt) and the programs themselves (grow_prg.exe). The documentation
is useful, but not necessary to run the program.

Modeling the Behavior of Thalamic Neurons, Part II:

Dendritic excitability in thalamic reticular neurons.

A collaboration with A. Destexhe, D. Contreras, M. Steriade, and T. Sejnowski
demonstrated that the dendrites of GABAergic neurons of nucleus Reticularis
thalami (nRt) contain high levels of low-threshold calcium channels. These
results suggest that low-threshold bursts in nRt neurons are dendritically
generated, and that ongoing excitatory synaptic activity in the dendrites
will strongly modulate burst generation. Look at Alain
Destexhe's Home Page for a copy of the J. Neurosci. paper.More recently
we confirmed that the dendritic localization of low-threshold channels
is also a prominent feature of thalamocortical relay cells.